Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.